I'm not unemployed anymore - I actually have a very fabulous job as a preschool teacher with the University of Michigan child care centers. But I'm still posting, albeit a little more irregularly, and I don't want to ignore the personal progress I've made since starting this blog by renaming it.

Blog inspiration: I read 48 States in 48 Days by Paul Jury in the summer of 2011. It was fabulous...although he planned way less for his roadtrip than I would have. And at the same time, my lovely Anna was constantly reminding me that our lives were awesome, despite the fact that we didn't have job prospects, new cars, boyfriends/husbands, houses, etc., like so many people we knew. So, in an effort to appreciate my life and the crazy uncertainty that it is, I started writing this blog about the little adventures I have. (And by "writing a blog," I mean "making a list" because I make lists, not narratives.) Even if there isn't a BIG adventure that happens every day, I try to find at least one thing to list :)

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Work To Make It Work

  • Even though I worked 10 hours today, it was a good day. One of the little girls I worked with today told me all about how her dad is teaching her Korean. When I started asking her if she knew such-and-such words, she was like, "Do you know Korean?!" I said that I had just lived there for a while so I knew a little. I just got to sit during lunch (hasn't happened since I started). I got to stay with the sleeping kids during nap time (yay reading time!). I hung out with a bunch of very cuddly kids today :) :) And there were extra people in my room at the end of the day so I got to leave a little early. It was nice after the amount of stress I endured yesterday.
  • Tonight, I watched Michelle Obama's DNC speech, Ann Romney's RNC speech (for comparison) and The Daily Show from yesterday. Several interesting points came to mind:
    • Do you think they (Michelle and Ann) frame their speeches as the president's wife and as mothers because they are the First Lady (and prospective First Lady) or because it's a reflection on our current societal views on feminism?
    • (From Carlee) Because of ^, it will be interesting when we have a female and/or single candidate.
    • Tom Brokaw and Jon Stewart had a really great, actual conversation about media, the campaign vs. the job that needs to be done, among other things and I really enjoyed it. Notable quote: "By the time people tune in to [various news programs on whatever channel], they already know what happened...they want to know what it means - what was right, what was wrong." I'm glad Tom Brokaw is still around :)
    • Thank NPR, for providing transcripts of both speeches. You are cool.
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